'Twas the Night Before Christmas (webcast)

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Featuring:	Santa Claus
Main setting:	Lapland, 24 December
Key crew
Read by:	Bradley Walsh
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	18 December, 2018
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas was a Christmas themed webcast story featuring the Thirteenth Doctor.

Summary

Get in the festive spirit with a very Doctor Who poem!

Plot

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus is in a panic because his sleigh has lost its magical flying power. He calls the Thirteenth Doctor, who agrees to lend him her TARDIS for the night. Later, as the TARDIS zips around the world, a news anchor reports that there have been sightings of a police box in the sky.

Cast

• Narrator - Bradley Walsh
• Thirteenth Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
• Santa Claus - TBA
• Newsreader - Sophie Raworth

References

• A sign points towards the North Pole.
• Santa Claus' sleigh has lost its magical flying power.
  • Santa moans that it is too late to call a mechanic.
• Santa has an iPhone with a cover that reads Plum.
  • Santa knows the telephone number to the TARDIS.
• The Thirteenth Doctor is on an unnamed planet.
• The Doctor uses the TARDIS telephone.
• The Doctor offers Santa to borrow the TARDIS.
• A newsreporter reports about sightings of a flying police box.

Notes

• The story is named after the famous Christmas poem of the same name, and told to the same rhythm and metre.

Continuity

• The Doctor has met Santa Claus on multiple occasions before. (COMIC: A Christmas Story, Silent Knight, PROSE: Dr. Tenth: Christmas Surprise!, The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas, A Visit from Saint Nicholas, TV: A Christmas Carol, Death in Heaven, Last Christmas)